Pager(1.20)

NAME
Pager - the Afterstep Pager module

SYNOPSIS
Pager is spawned by afterstep, so no command line invocation will work. From within the autoexec file or as a menu option, Pager is spawned as follows:

Module Pager 0 3

or from within an afterstep pop-up menu:

% cat "~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start/Modules/Virtual desktop"
Pager 0 3

where "0" is the first desktop to show, and "3" is the last.

DESCRIPTION
The Pager module shows a miniature view of the Afterstep desktops which are specified in the command line. This is a useful reminder of where your active windows are. Windows in the pager are shown in the same color as their afterstep decorations. The pager can be used to change your viewport into the current desktop, to change desktops, or to move windows around. Pressing mouse button 1 in the pager will cause you viewport to change to the selected page of the selected desk. If you click with button 1 in the desk-label area, you will switch desks but not pages within the desk. Dragging mouse button 2 on a miniature view of a window will cause that window to be move to the location where you release the mouse button, but your viewport will not change. If you drag the window out of the pager and onto your desktop, a full size image of the window will appear for you to place. There is no way to pick up a full size image of the window and move it into the pager, however. Since some mice do not have button 2, I have made provisions to drag windows in the pager by using pressing modifier-1 (usually Alt) and dragging with button 3. Clicking mouse button 3 on a location within the current desktop will cause the viewport to move to the selected location, but will not align the viewport to a page boundary. Dragging button 3 will cause the viewport to move as you drag. Button 3 operations are limited to the current desktop only. When iconified, the pager will work as a fully functional current page only pager. Windows and viewports can be moved within the icon of the pager. Users will want to make sure that they have no lines similar to

Icon "Pager" whatever

in their feel files.

INITIALIZATION
During initialization, Pager will eventually search a configuration file which describes the time-outs and actions to take. The configuration file is ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/pager . If the Pager executable is linked to another name, ie ln -s Pager OtherPager, then another module called OtherPager can be started, with a completely different configuration than Pager, simply by changing the keyword Pager to OtherPager. This way multiple Pager programs can be used.

KEYBOARD FOCUS CONTROL
You can direct the keyboard focus to any window on the current desktop by clicking with button 2 on its image in the pager. The window does not need to be visible, but it does need to be on the current page.

INVOCATION
The invocation method was shown in the synopsis section

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Pager reads ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/pager file when it starts up, and looks for certain configuration options:

*PagerGeometry geometry
    Completely or partially specifies the pager windows location and geometry, in standard X11 notation. In order to maintain an undistorted aspect ratio, you might want to leave out either the width or height dimension of the geometry specification

*PagerRows rows
    Tells afterstep how many rows of desks to use when laying out the pager window.

*PagerColumns columns
    Tells afterstep how many columnss of desks to use when laying out the pager window.

*PagerIconGeometry geometry
    Specifies a size (optional) and location (optional) for the pager's icon window. Since there is no easy way for Pager to determine the height of the icon's label, you will have to make an allowance for the icon label height when using negative y-coordinates in the icon location specification (used to specify a location relative to the bottom instead of the top of the screen).

*PagerStartIconic
    Causes the pager to start iconified.

*PagerFont font-name
    Specified a font to use to label the desktops. If font_name is "none" then no desktop labels will be displayed.

*PagerSmallFont font-name
    Specified a font to use to label the window names in the pager. If not specified, the window labels will be omitted. Window labels seem to be fairly useless for desktop scales of 32 or greater.

*PagerFore color
    Specifies the color to use to write the desktop labels, and to draw the page-grid lines.

*PagerBack color
    Specifies the background color for the window.

*PagerHilight color
    The active page and desk label will be highlighted by using this background pattern instead of the normal background.

*PagerLabel desk label
    Assigns the text label to desk desk in the pager window. Useful for assigning symbolic names to desktops, ie

    *PagerLabel 1 Mail
    *PagerLabel 2 Maker
    *PagerLabel 2 Matlab

PagerXPM desk xpm
    Sets xpm as the root window background for desktop desk. The XPM is also used as background for the Desktop representation in the Pager window.

    *PagerXPM 0 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk0/background.xpm
    *PagerXPM 1 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk1/background.xpm
    *PagerXPM 2 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk2/background.xpm
    *PagerXPM 3 ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/desks/desk3/background.xpm

    Please don't change the default, else AfterStep will not know how to automatically change root pixmap when you change of desktop !

PagerAlign LabelPosition
    Sets the alignment of the labels for the desktops. Use 0 for centered, >0 for left, <0 for right alignment. If <>0 the absolute value of LabelPosition will be the distance between label text and window border.

DeskTopScale number
    If the geometry is not specified, then a desktop reduction factor is used to calculate the pager's size. Things in the pager window are shown at 1/number of the actual size.

AUTHOR
Robert Nation Alfredo Kojima Guylhem Aznar